Some of What is Left Behind

Seems the farmer let the crows have it. The corn, that is.

Standing Again

 The typhoon on June 19th flattened the corn.
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 Almost uprooted it.

Two days after being knocked down, the corn is almost standing up straight again. (The crows didn't bother this corn field. Maybe they didn't want to pick on something beaten down to the ground.)

These photos were taken with a Panasonic Lumix 10x.

Crow Update

The crows have lost their breakfast, lunch, and dinner spot.

Unfortunately, crows are noisy and the fruit tree was messy.

They still gather. Can you see why?

Corn fields. They've done a lot of damage.

Let's see if this works.

These photos were taken with a Panasonic Lumix 10x.

recent posts about the recent neighborhood crow situation:
Gathering Before the Storm

Gathering After the Storm

Waiting on the Corn to Grow

The corn is growing. The farmer recently poked holes in some of the plastic and pulled the corn stalks through them. Some of the stalks are not tall enough yet.

This year the corn was planted further away from our fence. Too bad. Rattling corn stalks at the end of summer is nice.

Click on the picture to enlarge it. Those are poles of beans in the background.

Same Cornfield, Something New Added

The farmer added netting between two rows of his corn.

The Fields Behind Our House June 2007

That's the neighbor's roof in the lower left hand corner. The dark reddish purple plant near the net fence is purple shiso. Click to enlarge. Can you tell from which direction the sunlight is coming?

Corn and potatoes.

Tokyo Gold

This corn field is right over our fence.

Corn cobs are forming. This is corn silk.

The bees are feeding on the corn flowers.

Corn Protection

This season, the farmer has tried something new. He put a net over the plastic so it wouldn't blow off. It worked.

He then had to take it off so he could punch holes for the corn to grow through. Check the labels below or do a blog search to see what he did in the past and why he changed it.

The Cornfield

It turned out to be a sunny afternoon yesterday. Still there was water standing in the field behind our house. Here is the cornfield. (That's not our house in the background).

The farmer planted the corn under plastic covers again this year. He prepared the ground and planted the corn. Then he stuck bamboo poles one at a time into the ground on one side of the corn rows. He bent the poles over to the other side of the rows and stuck the ends into the ground. Then he rolled and tied plastic over the poles. The corn grew up through a hole in the top. Then he put straw mats between the rows. I took this picture of the straw mats at our local hardware store.



Two years ago, he lost his whole crop from high winds. It was all bent and twisted around. Last year he planted it this way and it worked. The corn made it through high winds. We haven't had any high winds yet this year. He sells his crops to shops. We sometimes buy things from him over our fence.